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Summary

Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753-1784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Other contributors include James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, many others. Indispensable for students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry. Introduction.

Table of Contents

Phillis Wheatley Peters On Being Brought From Africa to America An Hymn to the EveningGeorge Moses Horton Liberty and Slavery Early Affection Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur Imploring to Be Resigned at Death "George Moses Horton, Myself"Joshua McCarter Simpson Away to Canada To the White People of AmericaJames Monroe Whitfield How Long? The MisanthropistFrancis Ellen Watkins Harper Bury Me in a Free Land To the Union Savers of Cleveland From Moses: A Story of the Nile "Sir, We Would See Jesus" Learning to Read Songs for the PeopleJames Madison Bell From A Poem Entitled the Day and the War From An Anniversary Poem Entitled the Progress of LibertyCharlotte L. Forten Grimké WordsworthAlfred Islay Walden Wish for an OvercoatAlberry Alston Whitman "From Not a Man, and Yet a Man" From Twasinta's Seminoles; or Rape of FloridaHenrietta Cordelia Ray Robert G. Shaw Verses to My Heart's-SisterGeorge Marion McClellan A September Night The Feet of Judas A January Dandelion"Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr." Frederick Douglass Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League The Don't-Care NegroJosephine Delphine Henderson Heard "They Are Coming?"Danel Webster Davis I Can Trust Aunt Chloe's LullabyMary Weston Fordham Atlanta Exposition OdeJames Edwin Campbell Ol' Doc' Hyar Mors et Vita De Cunjah Man Sciplinin' Sister BrownJames David Corrothers "De Black Cat Crossed His Luck" Paul Laurence Dunbar At the Closed Gate of Justice An Indignation DinnerJames Weldon Johnson Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing O Black and Unknown Bards The White WitchPriscilla Jane Thompson The Muse's FavorPaul Laurence Dunbar Sympathy An Ante-Bellum Sermon We Wear the Mask When Malindy Sings The Haunted Oak The PoetAnne Spencer [Annie Bethel Scales Bannister] Dunbar White Things Letter to My SisterClaude McKay The Harlem Dancer If We Must Die Flame-Heart The Tropics in New York EnslavedJean Toomer Georgia Dusk Her Lips Are Copper WireLangston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Jazzonia "I, Too" Bound No'th Blues Mother to SonCountee Cullen Yet Do I Marvel "To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime" From the Dark Tower